"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Do you wish you hadn't stayed all night?
Do you wish you hadn't gotten so high?
Do you wish you hadn't come? Oh no, gotta go
Do you wish you wasn't half past gone?
Do you wish you didn't last that long?
Do you wish you hadn't come? Oh no, gotta go, gotta run
May I remind you,
May I remind that you've got nowhere to go,
So I'm standing beside you,
Standing beside you 'til you find our way back home
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
And we're dancing on the finest line,
Between the chance of the time of our lives,
Wishing you were done, oh no, gotta run
And we're choosing not to make that choice,
And we lose our shoes and voice,
But we have a lot of fun on the way, wanna play?
Gotta come!
May I remind you,
May I remind that you've got no where to go,
So I'm standing beside you,
I'm standing beside you 'til you find our way back home
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
Then it all comes flooding back to me,
Like a forgotten melody from a dream
Then it all comes flooding back to me,
Like a forgotten melody from a dream
Then it all comes flooding back to me,
Like a forgotten melody
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
Do you wish you hadn't gotten so high?
Do you wish you hadn't come? Oh no, gotta go
Do you wish you wasn't half past gone?
Do you wish you didn't last that long?
Do you wish you hadn't come? Oh no, gotta go, gotta run
May I remind you,
May I remind that you've got nowhere to go,
So I'm standing beside you,
Standing beside you 'til you find our way back home
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
And we're dancing on the finest line,
Between the chance of the time of our lives,
Wishing you were done, oh no, gotta run
And we're choosing not to make that choice,
And we lose our shoes and voice,
But we have a lot of fun on the way, wanna play?
Gotta come!
May I remind you,
May I remind that you've got no where to go,
So I'm standing beside you,
I'm standing beside you 'til you find our way back home
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
Then it all comes flooding back to me,
Like a forgotten melody from a dream
Then it all comes flooding back to me,
Like a forgotten melody from a dream
Then it all comes flooding back to me,
Like a forgotten melody
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down
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